WoRMS taxon details
Asteropseidae Hotchkiss & Clark, 1976
AphiaID: 149874
AphiaID: 149874
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Family | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Valvatida | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Asteropidae Fisher, 1908 Gymnasteriidae Valvasteridae Viguier, 1878 (monotypic family synonymized into Asteropseidae by Blake (1980)) Valvasterinae Viguier, 1878 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Hotchkiss, F.H.C. & A.M. Clark. (1976). Restriction of the family Poraniidae sensu Spencer & Wright, 1966 (Echinodermata: Asteroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 30(6): 263-268 [details] basis of record: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Clark, A.M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1993). Echinoderm Studies, 4: pp. 187-366 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Clark, A.M. and M.E. Downey. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall: London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Asteropsis Müller & Troschel, 1840 Genus Dermasterias Perrier, 1875 Genus Petricia Gray, 1847 Genus Poraniella Verrill, 1914 Genus Valvaster Perrier, 1875 Genus Asterope Müller & Troschel, 1840 accepted as Asteropsis Müller & Troschel, 1840 Genus Asteropsis Perrier, 1875 accepted as Petricia Gray, 1847 Genus Gymnasteria Gray, 1840 accepted as Asteropsis Müller & Troschel, 1840 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Remark: As remarked in Hotchkiss & Clark (1976: 266, footnote), the earlier family name Asteropsidae, used once by Perrier (1884: 154) is invalidated by his mistaken concept of the genus Asteropsis Muller & Troschel, 1842, omitting the type species, Asterias carinifera Lamarck, 1816. The transfer of Valvaster to this family by Blake (1980) means that the name Valvasteridae Viguier, 1878 should take precedence over Asteropseidae but there is a good case for the ICZN to set aside this priority to avoid further confusion. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149874 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Asteropseidae. In: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=149874 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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